Monday, September 24, 2012

Day 1 - Gyeongbokgung Palace, Insadong

Today we took a guided tour along with several other adopting couples.  We toured Gyeongbokgung palace and the Korean National Folk Museum.  After these tours we went to Insadong for lunch and shopping.  All these places are walking distance from our hotel so we may go back later with Sam.

Our tour guides were Korean students in the area who volunteered their time for Holt.  They were very helpful with getting us around, figuring out the lunch menu, and finding shops for whatever we were looking for.  Our tour guide Chloe had previously lived in Washington and went to University of Washington.  So we made sure to give her an OSU beaver tshirt when we were finished.  I have decided that OSU needs to pay us for all the advertising we are doing for them.  We also gave a shirt to our bus driver from the airport.

The Korean rapper Psy who has been sweeping the US with his "Gangnam Style" was seen at Gyeongbokgung in this video.  It will give you a good view of where we were at today.


Below are pictures of the tour:

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